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The Awakening vocab.
The Awakening words, definition, and sentence
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lugger | a small sailing vessel |
| Lugger | "A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the cheniere caminada in the Beaudelets ________ to hear mass" |
| Langour | a lack of energy |
| Langour | "His eyes gathered in and reflected the light and ______ of the summer day." |
| Mules | Women's slippers that are open in the back |
| Mules | "Blowing out the candle, she slipped her bare feet into a pair of satin _____ at the foot of the bed and went out onto the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently two and fro." |
| Sonorous | Tired |
| Sonorous | "Her glance wandered from his face away toward the Gulf, whose _____ murmur reached her like a loving but imperative entreaty." |
| Vouchsafe | To promise, vow |
| Vouchsafe | "But she died between summers; then Robert posed as an inconsolable, prostrating himself at the feet of Madame Ratignolle for whatever crumbs of sympathy and comfort she might be pleased to _______" |
| Desultory | Disconnected, random |
| Desultory | "In the lulls Robert and his mother exchanged bits of ______ conversation." |
| Effulgence | A brilliant radiance |
| Effulgence | "There was a soft ______ in the east." |
| Weazened | Dried up and wrinkled |
| Weazned | "She was a homely woman, with a small ______ face and body and eyes that glowed." |
| Piquant | spicy |
| Piquant | "she had a round, sly, _______ face and pretty black eyes." |
| Sardonically | Mockingly |
| Sardonically | "Old Monseiur Farival laughed ________ at something as he looked at the sails, and Baudelet swore at the old man under his breath." |
| Suffused | covered |
| Suffused | "But his face _____ with a quiet glow when he met her." |
| Dissuaded | Deterred, talked out of |
| Dissuaded | "But Monsieur Faravial had assured him that his wife was only overcome with sleep and fatigue, that Tonie would bring her safely back later in the day; and he had been ______ from crossing the bay." |
| Incipiently | Starting, developing |
| Incipiently | "For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt _______ as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman." |
| Consternation | A state of fear or ainxiety |
| Consternation | ""Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine ______ in his voice as he laid down the vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses." |
| Alacrity | Cheerful energy |
| Alacrity | "The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and _____ for the occasion." |
| Ennui | Boredom |
| Ennui | "It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless _______." |
| Atelier | A large well-lit room used by an artist as a studio for painting |
| Atelier | ""It seems to me that the utmost folly for a woman at the head of the household, and the mother of children, to spent in an ____ days which would be better employed contriving for the comfort of her family."" |
| Glibly | Smoothly, persuasively |
| Glibly | "he remembered the contents which in truth he rattled off very _____ when put to the test." |
| Coquetted | flirted |
| Coquetted | "Madame _____ with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders." |
| Palpitant | Trembling |
| Palpitant | "He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy eye brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed _______ with the forces of life." |
| Perambulations | Walks or strolls |
| Preambulations | "Edna and her father looked very distinguished together, and excited a good deal of notice during their _______." |
| Eiderdown | A comforter, blanket |
| Eiderdown | "As she snuggled comfortably beneath the _______ a sense of restfulness invaded her, such as she had not known before." |
| Cicatrice | A scar left by a healing of a wound |
| Cicatrice | "She touched his hand as she scanned the red _________ on the inside of his white wrist" |
| Languid | Lacking energy |
| Languid | "She thought of Madame Ratignolle, but knew that her friend did not leave the house, except to take a ______ walk around the block with her husband after nightfall." |
| Mackintosh | Rain coat |
| Mackintosh | "She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching assisted removing Edna's dripping ______." |
| Acquiesced | Agreed |
| Acquiesced | ""Well that ought to be reason enough," he _____." |
| Multitudinous | Countless |
| Multitudinous | "It was only one phase of the _______ emotions which had ailed her." |
| Lorgnettes | Opera glasses, eyeglasses with a short handle |
| Lorgnettes | "There was a Miss Mayblunt, no longer in her teens, who looked at the world through ____ and with the keenest interest." |
| Volubility | Wordiness |
| Volubility | "Mrs. Highcamp hung with languid but unaffected interest upon the warm and impetuous _____ of her left-hand neighbor, Victor Lebrun." |
| Sojourn | a visit |
| Sojourn | "...Brief notice to the effect of Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier were contemplating a summer ______ abroad, and that their handsome residence on Esplinade Street was undergoing sumptuous alterations, and would not be ready for occupancy until their return." |
| Latent | Hidden |
| Latent | "He had detected the ____ sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her natures requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom." |
| Allurements | objects of attractinon |
| Allurememts | "They were still talking of the dinner and the ______ of the city life when Mrs. Pontellier herself slipped around the corner of the house." |
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